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Saturday, July 22, 2006
RELIAPUNDIT REPRISE: LEBANON AND HIZB'ALLAH
I wrote this on 2/22/05 - MORE THAN A YEAR AGO:
NEOJIHADIST THUGGERY DESTROYED LEBANON. First Arafat's thugs - and now the thugs of Hizb'allah (supported by Syria and Iran). When we ERADICATE THEM, then Lebanon will once again be a jewel of tolerance and prosperity.That process is ocurring now.
JAMES EARL CARTER: WE KNOW WHO HE REALLY IS BY THE FRIENDS HE KEEPS
CHECK THIS OUT! Via Gateway.
It's always worth remembering that most of the major problems the Free World faces all began on Jimmy's horrifyingly awful single term in office: the Shah fell - giving rise to Khomeini and islamofascism; Afghanistan fell to the USSR; Saddam came to power in a coup. All while Jimmy's cronies profiteered with BCCI - a bank with nefarious ties to the hubs of islamofascism.
The ONLY thing worse than Jimmy's presidency, is what he's done since.
It's always worth remembering that most of the major problems the Free World faces all began on Jimmy's horrifyingly awful single term in office: the Shah fell - giving rise to Khomeini and islamofascism; Afghanistan fell to the USSR; Saddam came to power in a coup. All while Jimmy's cronies profiteered with BCCI - a bank with nefarious ties to the hubs of islamofascism.
The ONLY thing worse than Jimmy's presidency, is what he's done since.
POWERLINE: "it's pretty clear that U.N. peacekeepers aren't the solution."
Some cemmentators have argued that THE UN "PEACE-KEEPERS" SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN STOPPING THE HIZB'ALLAH-ISRAELI WAR.
Well - as POWERLINE reminds us, THEY ARE ALREADY THERE! UNIFIL is the UN "peace-keeping" force that's ALREADY IN LEBANON'S SOUTHERN/HIZB'ALLAH CONTROLLED REGION. They've been there FOR YEARS, and NOT TOO LONG AGO they actually aided and abetted Hizb'Allah in a prior kidnapping of IDF soldiers. POWERLINE links to DAVE KOPPEL'S thorough explanation of the relationship between UNIFIL and Hizb'Allah.
Well - as POWERLINE reminds us, THEY ARE ALREADY THERE! UNIFIL is the UN "peace-keeping" force that's ALREADY IN LEBANON'S SOUTHERN/HIZB'ALLAH CONTROLLED REGION. They've been there FOR YEARS, and NOT TOO LONG AGO they actually aided and abetted Hizb'Allah in a prior kidnapping of IDF soldiers. POWERLINE links to DAVE KOPPEL'S thorough explanation of the relationship between UNIFIL and Hizb'Allah.
BOORTZING THE ENEMY: or why and how clarity and resolve matter
When it comes to knowing who our enemy is and what the enemy stands for, NEIL BOORTZ is very clear and very resolved - and he spells it out to an American Muslim who called into his radio show. Seven (7) minutes which'll leave you thinking: "GEE, I WISH I'D SAID THAT!"
Friday, July 21, 2006
MSM SCUM UNITED: ISAACSON HOSTS RAINES AT ASPEN INSTITUTE
Walter Isaacson was the CHIEF of CNN when Eason Jordan was following orders from Saddam and NOT reporting the truth in order to maintain CNN's Baghdad office. He left and became the Chief of the ASPEN INSTITUTE - which is, BTW, a liberal outfit which is the LARGEST sponsor of Congressional "junkets."
Isaacson's association with Aspen makes it especially APT that the Aspen Institute hosted another Left-wing scumbag prevaricator and propagandist - the former Editor in Chief of the "NY Slimes" Howell Raines.
Birds of a Feather. Isaacson and Eason Jordan and Raines and Jayson Blair. Discredited MSM has beens. Deservedly so.
Isaacson's association with Aspen makes it especially APT that the Aspen Institute hosted another Left-wing scumbag prevaricator and propagandist - the former Editor in Chief of the "NY Slimes" Howell Raines.
Birds of a Feather. Isaacson and Eason Jordan and Raines and Jayson Blair. Discredited MSM has beens. Deservedly so.
EXPOSING RADICAL MUSLIM HYPOCRISY: IMAGES OF MEN VERSUS NO IMAGES OF GOD
Muslims have a strict rule about depictions of God: they are NOT allowed. Images of God are like craven, profane idols, and are not allowed.
Muslims are allowed to have images of men - even so-called radical Muslims; they routinely publish, post and parade around with HUGE photos of Khomeini and Nasrallah and Bin Laden, for example.
Yet these very same "radical Muslims" don't permit ANY images of Mohummed. (They staged riots and made fatwas against those Danish cartoons, cartoonists and cartoon publishers, REMEMBER!?)
This is very strange to me. Why allow pictures of Khomeini or Nasrallah or King Fahd or Bin Laden - or other men they venerate, but not of Mohummed!?
Doesn't this BAN mean that they venerate Mohummed excessively!? Doesn't this BAN of any depiction of Mohummed elevate him over all mankind and put him in the SAME CATEGORY AS GOD - as a being who must not be depicted?! And isn't this a form of SACRELIGIOUS EXALTATION which is exactly what they claim they were trying to avoid by banishing any image of Mohummed!?
YES IT IS.
And it further exposes the utter INSANITY of the radical Muslim value system; it is a hypocritical, illogical and false creed.
Muslims are allowed to have images of men - even so-called radical Muslims; they routinely publish, post and parade around with HUGE photos of Khomeini and Nasrallah and Bin Laden, for example.
Yet these very same "radical Muslims" don't permit ANY images of Mohummed. (They staged riots and made fatwas against those Danish cartoons, cartoonists and cartoon publishers, REMEMBER!?)
This is very strange to me. Why allow pictures of Khomeini or Nasrallah or King Fahd or Bin Laden - or other men they venerate, but not of Mohummed!?
Doesn't this BAN mean that they venerate Mohummed excessively!? Doesn't this BAN of any depiction of Mohummed elevate him over all mankind and put him in the SAME CATEGORY AS GOD - as a being who must not be depicted?! And isn't this a form of SACRELIGIOUS EXALTATION which is exactly what they claim they were trying to avoid by banishing any image of Mohummed!?
YES IT IS.
And it further exposes the utter INSANITY of the radical Muslim value system; it is a hypocritical, illogical and false creed.
SECOND AMENDMENT SAVES LIVES - AGAIN
NYTIMES/AP - TENNESSEE:
A knife-wielding grocery store employee attacked eight co-workers Friday, seriously injuring five before a witness pulled a gun and stopped him, police said.PEOPLE DON'T SAVE LIVES; GUNS DO.
... The attacker, chasing one victim into the store's parking lot, was subdued by Chris Cope, manager of a financial services office in the same small shopping center, Higgins said.
Cope said he grabbed a 9mm semiautomatic pistol from his pickup truck when he saw the attacker chasing the victim ''like something in a serial killer movie.''
''When he turned around and saw my pistol, he threw the knife away, put his hands up and got on the ground,'' Cope told The Associated Press. ''He saw my gun and that was pretty much it.''
Police arrived within minutes and took the attacker into custody.
ANTI-ZIONISTS ARE ANTI-SEMITES
THE AMERICAN THINKER:
Two Connecticut professors got curious about the constant denials that extremely harsh critics of Israel were anti-Semitic. Edward H. Kaplan, the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences, and Charles A. Small, Director of Urban Studies, Southern Connecticut State University, decided to examine the issue in formal way. Their paper, “Anti-Israel Sentiment Predicts Anti-Semitism in Europe,” appears in the August issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution.RTWT. NOW.
... The correlation was almost perfect. In a survey of 5,000 Europeans in ten countries, people who believed that the Israeli soldiers “intentionally target Palestinian civilians,” and that “Palestinian suicide bombers who target Israeli civilians” are justified, also believed that “Jews don’t care what happens to anyone but their own kind,” “Jews have a lot of irritating faults,” and “Jews are more willing than others to use shady practices to get what they want.
VOLUNTARY EXTINCTION: HOW THE LIBERTINE LEFT, OPEN-BORDERS, AND ABORTION ARE DESTROYING OUR CIVILIZATION FROM WITHIN
Most of the illegal immigrants who come here, come here to work. Most get hired to do jobs by the day, for cash. There are millions of jobs available like this, apparently. Apparently there's a labor shortage.
Well, if all the babies who were aborted (since Roe v. Wade became law) had been born, then we wouldn't have this labor shortage. And it is THIS SHORTAGE which attracts the more exploitable illegal immigrants. These jobs would have been filled by people who would have been born here: AMERICANS. But they were never born; they were "aborted." And the needed labor IMPORTED.
THESE TWO ISSUES ARE NOT UN-RELATED: The libertine Left - which supports abortion on-demand and open borders - supports anything which denigrates traditional families and traditional family vaues. Like homosexual marriage.
Abortion, illegal immigration, and immigration without assimilation do both.
In particular, illegal immigrants who don't intend to stay and or to assimilate diminish the social integrity of our communities and of our nation.
This is, after all, what the socialists admitted was their huge failure in France; the failure which led to their recent banlieue riots: the French failed to assimilate and integrate the "north African" immigrants into their cities and their nation. This is true of most of Europe vis a vis their Muslim populations, and it is now true of the USA vis a vis our illegal immigrants.
Interstingly, the EU has an even lower birth rate than the USA. And I assert that this is why THEY needed to import labor. And why they now have a festering Muslim population which is islamicizing their culture, and de-Westernizing their civilization.
SO, abortion rights - born from Left-wing libertinage, (like AIDS was: both resulting from feeling that unlimited sex can be had without any repercussions) - turns out to be major cause of the downfall of European culture to Muslims, and perhaps of American culture to Mexicans.
After all, only cultures which pass along their values to the next generation can survive over time. Abortion reduces the size of the next generation, and this diminsihes a cultures ability to be transmitted over time.
In the USA, this has been happening for over two generations. And it's having a major effect. Some say it's why the Democrat Party is shrinking: FEWER DEMS ARE BEING BORN; MORE DEMS ARE BEING ABORTED.
Getting back to the abortion/immigration nexus: Our own babies we ABORTED, and then the vacuum this created was filled by labor IMPORTED.
The ultimate cause of all this is selfishness and laziness: Many people want the sex without the labor (as in going into labor). And then - when they need someone to do a job - they expect they can get a cheap import.
The selfishness and laziness and lack of personal responsibility (which underlies the pro-choice position) is a form of rot from within. And the fact that these very same pro-abortion people then don't care if the imported laborers assimilate or not, well this causes another form of rot, SOCIAL ROT: it disintegrates or culture and denigrates our civilization.
Which is what the Left wants.
To prevent this we need to end illegal immigration and demand assimilation of all legal immigrants.
And we need to make abortion extremely rare. We need to replace it with adoption and embryo extraction.
If we don't, then our civilization will, for all intents and purposes, become extinct.
Well, if all the babies who were aborted (since Roe v. Wade became law) had been born, then we wouldn't have this labor shortage. And it is THIS SHORTAGE which attracts the more exploitable illegal immigrants. These jobs would have been filled by people who would have been born here: AMERICANS. But they were never born; they were "aborted." And the needed labor IMPORTED.
THESE TWO ISSUES ARE NOT UN-RELATED: The libertine Left - which supports abortion on-demand and open borders - supports anything which denigrates traditional families and traditional family vaues. Like homosexual marriage.
Abortion, illegal immigration, and immigration without assimilation do both.
In particular, illegal immigrants who don't intend to stay and or to assimilate diminish the social integrity of our communities and of our nation.
This is, after all, what the socialists admitted was their huge failure in France; the failure which led to their recent banlieue riots: the French failed to assimilate and integrate the "north African" immigrants into their cities and their nation. This is true of most of Europe vis a vis their Muslim populations, and it is now true of the USA vis a vis our illegal immigrants.
Interstingly, the EU has an even lower birth rate than the USA. And I assert that this is why THEY needed to import labor. And why they now have a festering Muslim population which is islamicizing their culture, and de-Westernizing their civilization.
SO, abortion rights - born from Left-wing libertinage, (like AIDS was: both resulting from feeling that unlimited sex can be had without any repercussions) - turns out to be major cause of the downfall of European culture to Muslims, and perhaps of American culture to Mexicans.
After all, only cultures which pass along their values to the next generation can survive over time. Abortion reduces the size of the next generation, and this diminsihes a cultures ability to be transmitted over time.
In the USA, this has been happening for over two generations. And it's having a major effect. Some say it's why the Democrat Party is shrinking: FEWER DEMS ARE BEING BORN; MORE DEMS ARE BEING ABORTED.
Getting back to the abortion/immigration nexus: Our own babies we ABORTED, and then the vacuum this created was filled by labor IMPORTED.
The ultimate cause of all this is selfishness and laziness: Many people want the sex without the labor (as in going into labor). And then - when they need someone to do a job - they expect they can get a cheap import.
The selfishness and laziness and lack of personal responsibility (which underlies the pro-choice position) is a form of rot from within. And the fact that these very same pro-abortion people then don't care if the imported laborers assimilate or not, well this causes another form of rot, SOCIAL ROT: it disintegrates or culture and denigrates our civilization.
Which is what the Left wants.
To prevent this we need to end illegal immigration and demand assimilation of all legal immigrants.
And we need to make abortion extremely rare. We need to replace it with adoption and embryo extraction.
If we don't, then our civilization will, for all intents and purposes, become extinct.
CEASE-FIRES DON'T YIELD PEACE; VICTORY DOES
SOWELL - (VIA REAL CLEAR POLITICS):
People are calling for a cease-fire in the interests of peace. But there have been more cease-fires in the Middle East than anywhere else. If cease-fires actually promoted peace, the Middle East would be the most peaceful region on the face of the earth instead of the most violent.RTWT.
Was World War II ended by cease-fires or by annihilating much of Germany and Japan? Make no mistake about it, innocent civilians died in the process. Indeed, American prisoners of war died when we bombed Germany.
There is a reason why General Sherman said "war is hell" more than a century ago. But he helped end the Civil War with his devastating march through Georgia -- not by cease fires or bowing to "world opinion" and there were no corrupt busybodies like the United Nations to demand replacing military force with diplomacy.
... "Peace" movements don't bring peace but war.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
NEWS ABOUT TWO OF CHOMSKY'S HEROS
ONE DIES OF OLD AGE: "Khmer Rouge 'butcher' dies at 80."
ANOTHER WON'T: "Hassan Nasrallah also told Arabic TV network al-Jazeera Israeli attacks had not dented Hezbollah's capabilities."
MORE ON CHOMSKY HERE, ON NOAM AND NASRALLAH HERE, AND HERE.
ON NOAM AND KAMPUCHEA HERE.
ON CHOMSKY HERE.
CHOMSKY EPITOMIZES THE LEFT'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH GENOCIDAL TYRANTS:
THE RADICAL CHIC "PROGRESSIVES" IN THE USA AND THE EU ARE NO DIFFERENT: BELAFONTE, MOORE, SHEEHAN, SARANDON, STREISAND, TED TURNER, MARKOS AL ZUNIGA, ET AL - JUST LIKE CHOMSKY - ALL SUPPPORT THESE TYRANNICAL REGIMES. WHY? THEY GIVE "FREE" HEALTHCARE, AND HATE THE USA.
ANOTHER WON'T: "Hassan Nasrallah also told Arabic TV network al-Jazeera Israeli attacks had not dented Hezbollah's capabilities."
MORE ON CHOMSKY HERE, ON NOAM AND NASRALLAH HERE, AND HERE.
ON NOAM AND KAMPUCHEA HERE.
ON CHOMSKY HERE.
CHOMSKY EPITOMIZES THE LEFT'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH GENOCIDAL TYRANTS:
AS LONG AS THEY GIVE HEALTHCARE - AS STALIN AND SADDAM DID, ANYTHING ELSE GOES.AND THE LEFT DOESN'T CARE IF THE TYRANT IS A MARXIST OR A BAATHIST. WHICH IS WHY I SAY:
TO MAKE GLOBAL JIHAD HISTORY, WE HAVE TO MAKE THE LEFT HISTORY.THE AXIS OF EVIL - BETWEEN JIHADISTS AND LEFTISTS - GROWS MORE SOLID EACH DAY: CUBA AND IRAN; VENEZUELA AND IRAN; NORTH KOREA AND IRAN. THESE ARE THREE OF THE MOST LEFTIST/"PROGRESSIVE" REGIMES IN THE WORLD - AND THEY ARE ALL ALIGNED WITH IRAN.
THE RADICAL CHIC "PROGRESSIVES" IN THE USA AND THE EU ARE NO DIFFERENT: BELAFONTE, MOORE, SHEEHAN, SARANDON, STREISAND, TED TURNER, MARKOS AL ZUNIGA, ET AL - JUST LIKE CHOMSKY - ALL SUPPPORT THESE TYRANNICAL REGIMES. WHY? THEY GIVE "FREE" HEALTHCARE, AND HATE THE USA.
AXIS OF EVIL ACTIVELY COLLABORATING
WASHPOST:
US says Iranians witnessed N.Korea missile testI said this to friends at the time (7/4 - and meant to blog it - because NO ONE else had thought of it, but I got wrapped up in the holiday, and neglected to). I felt so at the time because I believed that it explained why the NOKO's felt they just HAD to do the test when they did: there is a close relationship between these two regimes of the axis of evil, and the NOKO's need cash and need to sell weapons to get some. Iran has cash and needs weapons. [Thanks to Gandalin for sending me the news.]
Reuters
Thursday, July 20, 2006; 11:19 AM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One or more Iranians witnessed North Korea's recent missile tests, deepening U.S. concerns about growing ties between two countries with troubling nuclear capabilities, a top U.S. official said on Thursday.
Asked at a U.S. Senate hearing about reports that Iranians witnessed the July 4 tests, Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill, the chief U.S. negotiator with Pyongyang, replied: "Yes, that is my understanding" and it is "absolutely correct" that the relationship is worrisome.
PROOF ISRAEL IS WINNING: LEFTIES ARE GETTING WOBBLY
Tonight I feel that Israel might be MUCH closer to a vctory over Hizb'Allah than anybody thinks. WHY? The naysayers are back! As Jack Shafer wrote in 2003:
They said we couldn't defeat Saddam. Then - after we kicked his butt - they said the Iraqis would fail to construct their own constitution and fail to elect a government.
Now the Left is questioning whether the IDF can defeat Hizb'Allah; HAARETZ:
The Leading Indicator of VictoryThey said the Taliban would defeat us - that we couldn't fight in the Afghan winter or the Afghan mountains! Johnny Apple - the NYTIMES most esteemed foreign correspondant also felt we would lose against the Taliban, and campared Afghanistan to Vietnam.
When Johnny Apple says we're thwarted, we must be on the verge of winning.
By Jack Shafer - Updated Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 2:09 PM ET
The best news to greet coalition forces all week comes in the form of an R.W. "Johnny" Apple Jr. piece in today's New York Times ("Iraqis Learn the Lessons of How U.S. Fights Wars"). Apple plots Saddam Hussein's learning curve and salutes the shrewdness of the Iraqi's battlefield tactics, a bit of emerging conventional wisdom shared by the Washington Post's Vernon Loeb today ("Tactics Show Iraqis Learned Lessons of War").
But while Loeb charts the specific lessons absorbed by the Iraqi military, Apple dribbles out generalities to communicate Saddam's tactical genius and the prospects for an American debacle...
They said we couldn't defeat Saddam. Then - after we kicked his butt - they said the Iraqis would fail to construct their own constitution and fail to elect a government.
Now the Left is questioning whether the IDF can defeat Hizb'Allah; HAARETZ:
This is a sure sign Israel is winning - and may be just days, or just 50 tons of bombs - FROM VICTORY. Why am I so sure? Two resons: One, the Left is always wrong; and Two, Israel can keep fighting until Hizb'Allah runs out of weaponry. The reverse is IMPOSSIBLE. And the pace of IDF attacks - and the tonnage - will increase EVERYDAY until the enemy is defeated. Stay tuned.Hezbollah is still showing no signs of breaking
By Amos Harel
It was a bad news day. In the morning, Israeli forces in Lebanon clashed with Hezbollah near Avivim. Two soldiers were killed. In the afternoon, Hezbollah began to shell the entire northern region heavily. Scores of Katyusha rockets were fired and two children from Nazareth were killed. For eight days, the Israel Defense Forces has been pounding Lebanon and dropping thousands of tons of bombs on it, yet Hezbollah remains the same intransigent rival as before. It is showing no signs of breaking - [umph added].
UPDATE: More proof Israel PROPERLY is kicking ass: ALL of the continental European papers have condemned Israel.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
A MESSAGE FOR BLACK-MAILING, KIDNAPPING, HOSTAGE-TAKING, GENOCIDAL MANIACS FROM A JOURNALIST WHO HAS LIVED IN LEBANON
MICHAEL TOTTEN:
I think Totten is right
The people of both Lebanon and Israel have my deepest sympathies. The Israelis do not deserve to be bombed by Hezbollah, and the Lebanese do not deserve to be bombed because of Hezbollah.
Hezbollah, though, deserves every last bomb that lands on their heads. There is a special circle in Hell dedicated to terrorists who hijack countries and use civilian populations as human shields. Hassan Nasrallah is using some of my personal friends as human shields, and for that I hope he dies twice.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS ALWAYS COMES BACK TO HAUNT YOU
WE SHOULDA GOT SADDAM IN 1991.
WE SHOULDA WIPED OUT KIM IL SUNG IN THE KOREAN WAR.
WE SHOULDA DEFEATED THE USSR IN 1946.
NEITHER HAMAS OR HIZB'ALLAH SHOULDA BEEN ALLOWED ON ANY BALLOT AS LONG AS THEY WERE "ARMED MILITIAS." ISRAEL SHOULDA PREVENTED THEM FROM ARMING IN THE FIRST PLACE.
WE SHOULDA WHACKED OSAMA IN 1998.
WE SHOULDA WHACKED MOKI AL SADR IN 2003.
WE SHOULDA WHACKED KHOMEINI IN 1979.
AND SO ON...
WHEN YOU LEAVE A JOB HALF-DONE, YOU ALLOW THE ENEMY TO STRENGTHEN - AND WHEN THEY'RE STRENGTHENED... WELL, THEN THEY ARE TOUGHER TO DEFEAT.
CHAMBERLAIN'S DEAL WITH HITLER ALLOWED HIM TO STRENGTHEN NAZI GERMANY, AND MADE WW2 WORSE - EXACTLY AS CHURCHILL PREDICTED. HITLER WOULDA BEEN EASIER TO DEFEAT IN 1938 THAN HE WAS IN 1945.
APPEASEMENT NEVER BRINGS VICTORY; IN FACT, IT ALWAYS MAKES ULTIMATE VICTORY MORE COSTLY.
WARS ARE WON WHEN THE ENEMY IS DEFEATED - UTTERLY, TOTALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY.
PATTON KNEW WHAT WAR WAS. AND HOW WARS WERE WON.
UPDATE: SOWELL AGREES.
WE SHOULDA WIPED OUT KIM IL SUNG IN THE KOREAN WAR.
WE SHOULDA DEFEATED THE USSR IN 1946.
NEITHER HAMAS OR HIZB'ALLAH SHOULDA BEEN ALLOWED ON ANY BALLOT AS LONG AS THEY WERE "ARMED MILITIAS." ISRAEL SHOULDA PREVENTED THEM FROM ARMING IN THE FIRST PLACE.
WE SHOULDA WHACKED OSAMA IN 1998.
WE SHOULDA WHACKED MOKI AL SADR IN 2003.
WE SHOULDA WHACKED KHOMEINI IN 1979.
AND SO ON...
WHEN YOU LEAVE A JOB HALF-DONE, YOU ALLOW THE ENEMY TO STRENGTHEN - AND WHEN THEY'RE STRENGTHENED... WELL, THEN THEY ARE TOUGHER TO DEFEAT.
CHAMBERLAIN'S DEAL WITH HITLER ALLOWED HIM TO STRENGTHEN NAZI GERMANY, AND MADE WW2 WORSE - EXACTLY AS CHURCHILL PREDICTED. HITLER WOULDA BEEN EASIER TO DEFEAT IN 1938 THAN HE WAS IN 1945.
APPEASEMENT NEVER BRINGS VICTORY; IN FACT, IT ALWAYS MAKES ULTIMATE VICTORY MORE COSTLY.
WARS ARE WON WHEN THE ENEMY IS DEFEATED - UTTERLY, TOTALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY.
PATTON KNEW WHAT WAR WAS. AND HOW WARS WERE WON.
UPDATE: SOWELL AGREES.
STEM CELLS, SNOWFLAKES AND ABORTIONS
"REUTERS":
U.S. President George W. Bush cast his first veto on Wednesday to block legislation to expand embryonic stem cell research, putting him at odds with top scientists, most Americans and some fellow Republicans.NYTIMES:
"It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect, so I vetoed it," Bush said of the research that involves tiny human embryos. ...
The issue has become ethically and politically volatile because extracting the cells entails destruction of an embryo.
Bush believes that is destroying a life. His opponents say the research, which would be done only on excess embryos from fertility treatments that would otherwise be destroyed, is potentially life-saving. ...
“This bill would support the taking of innocent human life,” Mr. Bush said at the White House, surrounded by scores of children born as a result of an embryo-adoption program and their parents.THE GUARDIAN (UK):
“Each of these human embryos is a unique human life with inherent dignity and matchless value,” Mr. Bush said. Looking at the children around him, he said to loud applause, “These boys and girls are not spare parts.”
The living breathing dreaming children who were with George W. Bush as he vetoed this bill were all adopted as embryos through the SNOWFLAKES EMBRYO ADOPTION PROGRAM.Mr Bush appeared yesterday with 18 families who had "adopted" frozen embryos discarded by other couples but subsequently used to have children.
"Each of these children was adopted while still an embryo and has been blessed with a chance to grow, to grow up in a loving family," Mr Bush said. "These boys and girls are not spare parts."
(VIDEO OF HIS REMARKS HERE AT EXPOSE THE LEFT.)
And this program intimates the ULTIMATE moral and political solution to the ENTIRE abortion problem.
As we all know, thew REAL problem is not abortion; the REAL problem is UNWANTED PREGNANCIES, and abortion is just a REAL BAD SOLUTION to that problem.
Embryo adoption is the solution - for pregnant women who don't want to go to term. Instead of aborting, they should give up their embryo for future adoption.
It's a WIN-WIN-WIN: the pregnant woman gets to terminate her pregnancy; the embryo gets a chance to live and breath and dream; and loving parents - who would otherwise not be able to have a pregnancy or a child - get to have a pregnancy and a baby!
Each side in the abortion debate - instead of financing political brawls - should finance medical research to make this a reality, and charities to make it a viable alternative for all women who have unwanted pregnancies.
We could shut down EVERY ABORTION CLINIC, and re-open them as embryo extraction, freezing and adoption centers.
(I have bloggeed on this before: HERE.) Full round-up HERE.
"THE OLMERT DOCTRINE" (LIKE THE BUSH DOCTRINE) IS NOT ABOUT DETERRENCE
Many in the blogosphere and the MSM have asserted that the current campaign by Israel against Hizb'Allah is all about re-establishing a deterrence:
The object is not to teach the jihadists a lesson; it is to utterly destroy their capability to attack Israel from Lebanon by destroying their caches and making it impossible for them to RE-OCCUPY (with weapons) any region in Lebanon from which they can strike Israel.
That's NOT deterrence; it's neutralization of the enemy's capacity to attack.
It's more like the Osiriak Preemption than like any previous Arab-Israeli war. WHY? Well, it's about going on the offense in order to neutralize the offensive capability of the enemy - and drawing a new line in the sand, rather than being about punishing the enemy and making them wary of attempting similar "adventures" in the future.
Bombing raids alone could punish the enemy, but it would not deter this enemy because they are jihadomaniacs whose sociopathic and suicidal rage cannot be deterred. And that's why Olmert - like Bush - has consigned deterrence (at least as it relates to the GWOT) to the dustbin of histry, where it belongs.
The goals which Olmert has set out for this campaign are concrete and attainable, and not abstract - like "deterrence."
The Olmert Doctrine has HUGE implications for Iran. Just as Israel cannot accept Hamas as the government of the so-called Palestinian Arabs, and cannot accept Hizb'Allah, (armed with missiles and rockets) controlling its border with Lebanon - Israel cannot - and will not - accept Iran armed with Nukes.
Israel is now paying the price for having allowed the jihadomaniacs on their Lebanese border to spend the last 6 years arming themselves to the teeth. They will not allow a repeat. Not in Lebanon. Not in Gaza. And not in Iran.
The Olmert Doctrine is simple: Israel will attack and destroy the enemy's capacity to make existentially threatening attacks. It's very much like the Bush Doctrine - as it should be: we are fighting the same enemy. Using the same strategy makes perfect sense.
That ain't hoping for peace by deterring the enemy; it's guaranteeing peace by virtually disarming the enemy. By neutralizing them. By defeating them if needs be.
The Israeli wars with Hizbullah in Lebanon and with the Palestinians in Gaza must be seen in the context of the pressing Israeli need to reestablish some semblance of a deterrent capacity.Another MSM journalist agrees:
Israel re-establishing the deterrentPipes more or less agrees - (via POWERLINE):
What does 'deterrent power' actually mean? Understand that, and you understand the remarkable savagery of the Israeli attacks on Lebanon...
But what does ''deterrent power'' actually mean?
Understand that, and you understand the remarkable savagery of the Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Of course, they are a ''disproportionate use of force'', as French President Jacques Chirac called them the other day. [Reliapundit: the journalist reveals her bias with this!] That is the whole point. Israel's ''deterrent power'' lies in its demonstrated will to kill and destroy on a vastly greater scale than anybody attacking it can manage. Its enemies must know that if one Israeli is killed, a dozen or even a hundred Arabs will die.
This has been the dominant concept of Israeli strategy from the very foundation of the state, and the ''kill ratio'' in all of Israel's wars down to its invasion of Lebanon in 1982 conformed to that pattern.
Deterrence cannot be reinstated in a week, through a raid, a blockade, or a round of war. It demands unwavering resolve, expressed over decades.THIS GENERALY CORRECT, BUT IN RELATION TO THE CURRENT CAMPAIGN - AND CAMPAIGNS AGAINST SUICIDAL/GENOCIDAL JIHADOTERRORISTS - IT'S JUST FLAT OUT WRONG.
The object is not to teach the jihadists a lesson; it is to utterly destroy their capability to attack Israel from Lebanon by destroying their caches and making it impossible for them to RE-OCCUPY (with weapons) any region in Lebanon from which they can strike Israel.
That's NOT deterrence; it's neutralization of the enemy's capacity to attack.
It's more like the Osiriak Preemption than like any previous Arab-Israeli war. WHY? Well, it's about going on the offense in order to neutralize the offensive capability of the enemy - and drawing a new line in the sand, rather than being about punishing the enemy and making them wary of attempting similar "adventures" in the future.
Bombing raids alone could punish the enemy, but it would not deter this enemy because they are jihadomaniacs whose sociopathic and suicidal rage cannot be deterred. And that's why Olmert - like Bush - has consigned deterrence (at least as it relates to the GWOT) to the dustbin of histry, where it belongs.
The goals which Olmert has set out for this campaign are concrete and attainable, and not abstract - like "deterrence."
The Olmert Doctrine has HUGE implications for Iran. Just as Israel cannot accept Hamas as the government of the so-called Palestinian Arabs, and cannot accept Hizb'Allah, (armed with missiles and rockets) controlling its border with Lebanon - Israel cannot - and will not - accept Iran armed with Nukes.
Israel is now paying the price for having allowed the jihadomaniacs on their Lebanese border to spend the last 6 years arming themselves to the teeth. They will not allow a repeat. Not in Lebanon. Not in Gaza. And not in Iran.
The Olmert Doctrine is simple: Israel will attack and destroy the enemy's capacity to make existentially threatening attacks. It's very much like the Bush Doctrine - as it should be: we are fighting the same enemy. Using the same strategy makes perfect sense.
That ain't hoping for peace by deterring the enemy; it's guaranteeing peace by virtually disarming the enemy. By neutralizing them. By defeating them if needs be.
AS ULTIMATUM EXPIRES, IDF STRIKES NASRALLAH'S BUNKER
VIA LGF:
Breaking: IAF Targets Hizballah Bunker
Breaking news at CNN:
Warplanes target what the Israeli military says is a bunker for senior Hezbollah leaders in Beirut, CNN confirms.
UPDATE at 7/19/06 3:02:12 pm:
Israel targets Beirut bunker.
Israeli warplanes dropped bombs late Wednesday on a bunker in south Beirut where senior Hizbullah leaders were thought to be, the military said.
IDF officials told Ynet that dozens of Air Force fighter jets participated in the massive air strike on a south Beirut target, acting on IDF intelligence.
BTW: I was the ONLY blogger to predict a REALLY BIG EVENT in the ant-Hizb'Allah campaign for today, (I based my prediction on the expiration of Olmert's 72 hour ultimatum to Syria; others felt this ultimatum meant tht the IDF woul;d strike Syria - only I said it was meant to be passed along to Nasrallah and meant that the IDf would take off their gloves and target him and his comrades with big bombs), and this is probably it.
The IDF probably killed Nasrallah today. STAY TUNED. "cause if he is still alive the bombs will get eveb bigger tomorrow.
ASIDE: This campaign is most like the anti-Serb campaign waged by Wesley Clark, (the war ordered by Clinton witho9ut Congres or the UN's approval). The IDF is doing what NATO did to the Serbs - only to the tenth power.
The IDF probably killed Nasrallah today. STAY TUNED. "cause if he is still alive the bombs will get eveb bigger tomorrow.
ASIDE: This campaign is most like the anti-Serb campaign waged by Wesley Clark, (the war ordered by Clinton witho9ut Congres or the UN's approval). The IDF is doing what NATO did to the Serbs - only to the tenth power.
UPDATE: MATSAV:
Update 1:43 AMIF THEY DIDN'T GET HIM WITH 23 TONS, THEN THEY WILL TRY AGAIN WITH 50.
This is from the JPost:
IAF fighter jets dropped over 20 tons in bombs late Wednesday night on a Hizbullah bunker, possibly the hiding place of the group's leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, in the Burj al-Arjana refugee camp in southeast Beirut. It was still unclear who was in the bunker at the time and what their fate was, but IDF sources said the bunker was totally destroyed and that all that was left was a crater.
The IDF obtained intelligence information late Wednesday night that Hizbullah leaders possibly including Nasrallah had taken refuge inside the bunker. A wave of aircraft immediately took to the air and dropped 23 tons of explosives on the bunker.
IDF sources would not confirm that Nasrallah was in the bunker at the time, but said that high-ranking Hizbullah leaders were inside, and that it appeared that the attack was successful.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
QUESTION FOR THE LEBANESE ARMY: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE A BETTER CHANCE AGAINST, HIZB'ALLAH OR THE IDF?
IOW: It's time the Lebanese Army made a move against Hizb'Allah. It's now... or never.
REMEMBER: The 72 hours are up. So, today in Israel - Wednesday - a big thing will probably happen.
UPDATE: IS THIS THE BEGINNING? More HERE.
REMEMBER: The 72 hours are up. So, today in Israel - Wednesday - a big thing will probably happen.
UPDATE: IS THIS THE BEGINNING? More HERE.
THE PACE AND DURATION OF "THE HIZB'ALLAH CAMPAIGN": ALL MY PREDICTIONS ARE CORRECT SO FAR
NYTIMES:
It will take one more week to destroy 90% of the remaining missiles and rockets and launchers and kill the teams trained in their use. And the leadership of Hizb'allah will either be dead or in exile a week after this occurs.
UPDATE: More proof I was right: JPOST:
My remaining predictions are these: a quick "Shwarzkopf-like" invasion to trap the leadership and smash them and the remaining caches of weapons. And an end to these actions between 7/27 and 8/1.
Sadly, I feel it is MOST LIKELY that the kidnapped soldiers will be found murdered - most brutally, as is the fashion with these jihadomaniacs.
A top Israeli general said today that Israel's offensive in Lebanon would last another few weeks, and he said that the use of large numbers of ground forces had not been ruled out.Exactly as I analyzed and predicted on Friday July 14: (1) how long it would last; (2) how the pace would quicken, and (3) the exact limited military and political goals.
Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky, Israel's deputy chief of staff, told Israel Radio that the army needed more time to complete "very clear goals." He added: "The fighting in Lebanon will end within a few weeks. We will not take months.'' ...
Israel intensified its bombing across Lebanon on Monday, hitting an army barracks in Tripoli and bases in Baalbek, both in the north. It shelled fuel tanks in Beirut’s port and continued pounding southern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs. In the afternoon, Israel made a brief ground raid into Lebanon.
Israeli military officials said they succeeded in hitting a rocket launcher in Beirut carrying one of Hezbollah’s longest-range rockets, an Iranian Zelzal, with a range of 62 to 124 miles. The attack caused the rocket to flare in the air, leading to reports that an Israeli plane might have been shot down. ...
The Israeli military wants to continue its largely aerial campaign against Hezbollah, with one senior Israeli official suggesting that Hezbollah’s capacity to launch missiles had already been degraded “about 30 percent.”
Brig. Gen. Ido Nehushtan, on the Israeli general staff, said, “We have damaged Hezbollah but they still have significant operational capacity.” He noted the decline in rockets launched into Israel in the last two days — an average of 40 a day, down from initial highs of 150 — and said it was a testament to the damage caused by the Israelis. ...
Of the 13,000 missiles and rockets estimated to be in Hezbollah’s arsenal, about 11,000 are believed to have been shipped from Iran. Western intelligence officials also say Syria has armed Hezbollah with short- and medium-range rockets, some of which have been used in the current attacks on Israel. ...
“Israel is making it possible for the Lebanese government to move in,” Foreign Minister Livni said. “In a way, Israel is doing the Lebanese government’s job for it” by taking on Hezbollah, which has been a state-within-a-state in southern Lebanon and southern Beirut.
“Israel shares the same goals as the international community, and for us the best option is full implementation of 1559,” Ms. Livni said. “That’s the way out of this crisis, and now is the time to implement it.”
It will take one more week to destroy 90% of the remaining missiles and rockets and launchers and kill the teams trained in their use. And the leadership of Hizb'allah will either be dead or in exile a week after this occurs.
UPDATE: More proof I was right: JPOST:
Forty to fifty percent of Hizbullah's military capability has been destroyed in the six days of the IDF counter-attack following last Wednesday's Hizbullah raid in northern Israel, The Jerusalem Post has learned. The IDF, it is understood, believes it needs another week or so minimum to achieve its military goals in terms of alleviating Hizbullah's capacity to threaten Israel. The IDF further believes, it is understood, that it will be given at least that long to continue its actions, in light of the G8 nations' essential support for Israel and those nations' branding Hizbullah and Hamas as being responsible for the current escalation.LOOKIT READERS, HERE'S A FACT: I WAS THE ONLY COMMENTER IN ANY MEDIA TO PREDICT THIS. I said 2 weeks; I said it would NOT involve an invasion of Syria; I said that the missiles and rockets were the major focus - along with the leadership. I was RIGHT ON ALL COUNTS.
My remaining predictions are these: a quick "Shwarzkopf-like" invasion to trap the leadership and smash them and the remaining caches of weapons. And an end to these actions between 7/27 and 8/1.
Sadly, I feel it is MOST LIKELY that the kidnapped soldiers will be found murdered - most brutally, as is the fashion with these jihadomaniacs.
NYTIMES ANNOUNCES IT WILL REDUCE THE NUMBER OF LIES AND THE AMOUNT OF CLASSIFIED DATA IT PUBLISHES EACH DAY
BY MAKING THE PAPER SMALLER. 1.5 INCHES NARROWER:
The reduction in the size of its pages would mean a loss of 11 percent of the space devoted to news, but the newspaper plans to add pages to make up for about half of that loss.WE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR EVEN SMALL THINGS.
''That's a number that I think we can live with quite comfortably,'' Executive Editor Bill Keller was quoted as saying. ''The smaller news space would require tighter editing and putting some news in digest form.''
Monday, July 17, 2006
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION
16 DIFFERENT POLITICIANS HAVE BEEN CONVICTED ON NEARLY 100 COUNTS OF VOTER FRAUD IN MISSOURI SINCE 2004. GUESS WHICH PARTY? ANSWER HERE.
IS IT ANY WONDER THESE FOLKS ARE SUING TO PREVENT VOTER ID -IN FREAKIN'-DEAKIN' MISSOURI?!
YUP: YOU NEED PHOTO ID TO BUY CIGARETTES AND BEER, BUT SOME PEOPLE WANT YOU TO BE ABLE TO VOTE AS MANY TIMES AS YOU CAN WITHOUT PRESENTING ANY ID.
MORE ON VOTER ID HERE.
More on the ACLU HERE.
IS IT ANY WONDER THESE FOLKS ARE SUING TO PREVENT VOTER ID -IN FREAKIN'-DEAKIN' MISSOURI?!
YUP: YOU NEED PHOTO ID TO BUY CIGARETTES AND BEER, BUT SOME PEOPLE WANT YOU TO BE ABLE TO VOTE AS MANY TIMES AS YOU CAN WITHOUT PRESENTING ANY ID.
MORE ON VOTER ID HERE.
More on the ACLU HERE.
FLASH: The UN and Russia want to send in international troops to protect Hizb'Allah...
... But they won't send troops to Iraq to protect Iraqis' nascent democracy.
Scum. News HERE and HERE and HERE.
HAARETZ:
Scum. News HERE and HERE and HERE.
HAARETZ:
Israel reiterated Monday its opposition to the initiative. The Prime Minister's Office said Sunday night that Israel would not agree to the deployment of any troops in south Lebanon, save for the Lebanese army. Israel is concerned that an international force would make it more difficult for the IDF to respond to future attacks from Lebanese territory.Making it tougher for the IDF to destroy Hizb'Allah is the whole point for scum like Annan and Putin. Blair is a dupe playing the role of Chamberlain.
BBC: SCIENTISTS PROVE THAT ATMOSPHERIC CO2 AND OXYGEN LEVELS HAVE ALWAYS FLUCTUATED
BBC:
UK scientists have traced the history of wildfires by studying lumps of ancient charcoal from around the world. The fossils show the incidence of fires through time is closely related to the level of atmospheric oxygen.
Andrew Scott and Ian Glasspool say huge swathes of the planet were ablaze when concentrations of the gas peaked some 275 million years ago. Their research is published in the US scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "People might think the charcoal they pull out of a bonfire is just rubbish; but look at it under a microscope and you see that it has beautiful anatomical preservation," said geologist Professor Scott, from Royal Holloway, University of London.
"In other words, the charcoal retains information not just about the fire but about the type of plants that were being burned. This means we can tell whether the fires moved through surface plants or big trees," he told BBC News.
Oxygen feeder
Charcoal is almost pure carbon and is left virtually unchanged in the fossilisation process. Scott and Glasspool, who is affiliated to Chicago's Field Museum, examined charcoal residues preserved from about 440 to roughly 250 million years ago.
Charcoal and plant debris (Royal Holloway, University of London) It covers the period when scientists believe plants first got a strong foothold on land and spread rapidly across the surface. The charcoal samples studied came from all around the world, including the US, Australia, Scotland, India, Norway, South Africa and Antarctica.
The researchers examined the material to ascertain the types of fires that produced the charcoal and their likely incidence. They then compared this with models other scientists have produced to describe how oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is thought to have changed over time.
There appears to be a strong link.
The team found that fires were rare and localised for the first 50 million years of plant evolution but then they increased in frequency as the levels of oxygen in the atmosphere rose. From around 365 million years ago, severe fires became widespread across the planet. Oxygen levels peaked at 30% 275 million years ago, in comparison with only 21% today. In this period even damp vegetation would have ignited easily causing many more fires.
Whole Earth
"From the Late Devonian - from about 365 million years ago - there was a rapid increase in fire," Professor Scott explained.
"One might have expected that to occur earlier but it seems to have coincided with this rapid rise in atmospheric oxygen that people have modelled. So, this is the first time anyone has used the charcoal record to constrain the atmospheric oxygen models."
Scanning electron micrograph of charred fern (Royal Holloway, University of London) The Royal Holloway scientist has spent the best part of 30 years studying charcoal. He says the material's importance has been overlooked by many geologists. It is clear, he argues, that fires have been an integral part of the Earth system and that changing atmosphere and climate are both influenced by, as well as influencing, fire occurrence.
A GRAPH ACCOMPANYING THE ARTICLE SHOWS SUBSTANTIAL VARIATION IN ATMOSPHERIC CO2 AND OXYGEN - BEFORE HUMANITY EXISTED, LET ALONE FOSSIL FUELS AND SUV'S.
THE LEFT-WING KYOTO-HAWKS AND THE MSM THEY DOMINATE WILL CERTAINLY PUSH THE GLOBAL-WARMING ISSUE BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER - BY HIGHLIGHTNG EVERY WILDFIRE AND EVERY HURRICANE, EVEN THOUGH THE HISTORICAL RECORD PROVES THAT BOTH ARE COMPLETELY NATURAL, AND THAT THE FREQUENCY AND INTENSITY OF BOTH PHENOMENA HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HUMANITY.
THE LEFT-WING KYOTO-HAWKS AND THE MSM THEY DOMINATE WILL CERTAINLY PUSH THE GLOBAL-WARMING ISSUE BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER - BY HIGHLIGHTNG EVERY WILDFIRE AND EVERY HURRICANE, EVEN THOUGH THE HISTORICAL RECORD PROVES THAT BOTH ARE COMPLETELY NATURAL, AND THAT THE FREQUENCY AND INTENSITY OF BOTH PHENOMENA HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HUMANITY.
MY POINT: THE "KYOTO-HAWKS" ATTEMPT TO BLAME HUMANITY - AND SPECIFICALLY FREE-MARKETS AND INDUSTRIALISM - FOR CLIMATIC CHANGES WHICH ARE COMPLETELY NATURAL AND EXTRAORDINARILY COMPLEX. HUMANITY IS MOSTLY A BYSTANDER TO THESE CHANGES; HUMANITY IS NOT A MAJOR CAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
BUSH CALLED GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR, (OR "GLOBAL ANTI-JIHAD"), WW3 WAY-BACK IN MAY
Much has been made of Newt's MTP comment regarding WW3 - and global jihad. Newt suggested that Bush call it that.
Er um W did - on May 5th: BREITBART (AFP):
MY POINT: BUSH GETS IT!
Er um W did - on May 5th: BREITBART (AFP):
US President George W. Bush said the September 11 revolt of passengers against their hijackers on board Flight 93 had struck the first blow of "World War III."JONAH - DISCUSSING THE ISSUE AT NRO - LINKS TO THE BRILLIANT NORMAN PODHORETZ ARTICLE ON WW4 .
In an interview with the financial news network CNBC, Bush said he had yet to see the recently released film of the uprising, a dramatic portrayal of events on the United Airlines plane before it crashed in a Pennsylvania field.
But he said he agreed with the description of David Beamer, whose son Todd died in the crash, who in a Wall Street Journal commentary last month called it "our first successful counter-attack in our homeland in this new global war -- World War III".
Bush said: "I believe that. I believe that it was the first counter-attack to World War III.
MY POINT: BUSH GETS IT!